This pack has been a labor of love for me. I have been working on it for weeks and weeks. I hope you can use these elements together or separately in your classroom too. David Shannon is so awesome and ALL students love his books.

Hey.....psssst......over here! Yeah, you! Just wanted to let you know that I am still running my tax break sale. I figured we all needed an extra day of savings!!

I need to take a poll. And, I really would if I knew how with html code! But, anyway, dear readers, do you find the behavior punch cards that I have been using in my classroom helpful? I hate to keep putting them out there if they aren't helpful. Up until now I have been putting them out as a Google Doc, but do to the issues it has had with the punch cards I will need to start putting them out on TpT.

So...please leave a comment letting me know if you find those helpful. If they aren't, then I'll find something else that is free!!

Also, today I redid my Vocabulary Center Graphic Organizer and took the old one down. The new file is soooo much better than my old one. Now everything is in color and just beautiful. This is what they look like.

I made 32 graphic organizers this morning at 5 A.M.!! Sixteen of them are in color and 16 of them are black lined for copying. I plan to use the colored versions on my Promethean Board and annotate over them. The cost is $3 which is a steal...if I price as recommended on TpT, it should be priced much higher--more than twice of the price it is set out now.

The thing I like most about graphic organizers like this is that they almost teach for you. Once your students learn what to do the first time, they can pretty much roll with it.

I recommend creating a Vocabulary booklet to document the vocabulary learned throughout whatever book you are teaching. Plus, it is a really nifty study guide when it comes time for a vocabulary test!! Just click !on a thumb nail to go to TpT to grab it. By the way, I am still running my Tax Break Sale....I figured we all needed another day!!!

Hope you enjoy this!!

P.S. While you are at my store, click on the little follow button so that you can keep aware of all of the new products I am uploading. I counted, and as of today, I have 24 days until school is out. Then, I can finish a lot of unfinished products and get them out so that we can all print, cut, laminate, and cut again! Story of my life in the summer!

As an author/illustrator of children's picture books, my favorite part of making school visits is to see what sort of "Art" is on display during my time on site. As a 'snow-bird' resident of Florida, my favorite part of our season in paradise is getting to go to da-BEACH!!! As an educational blogger one of my favorite things is linking up my observations + efforts to that of others to share with a wider audience.

So imagine my enthusiasm when Mary at Sharing Kindergarten, said she was going to host a blog-hop on all things Beach related!!!

Check out all of the dozens of simple Arts + craft ideas that I've gathered together into one l-o-n-g post. There are additional bulletin board ideas, sunny projects to paint, an awesome anchor chart and some delightful connections to palm trees from "Chicka, Chicka Boom, Boom!!"

The post is quickly charging toward my Top 10 list as readers pin + share it to their circles of influence. Check it out, by clicking right here.

Every teacher needs a variety of time fillers for those times when there are five minutes left and you need something to do. A quick, easy and fun time filler that I have done with several classes is called "Guess Who?" cards. For a full explanation, head over to my blog, Teaching in the Early Years, by clicking on the image below.

We just finished our Reading Street story, Tippy-Toe Chick, Go! It was a great addition to our Easter week! Our theme was Clever Ideas so the students were Problem Solving Detectives during writing! I had some writing activities in their centers they were really excitied about. They brainstormed problems they have had and came up with a few clever solutions to those problems.

I added Read and Write the room with the ending -le and vowel pattern -ow

If you are looking for planning ideas post Easter... Hop over to my blog to see my newest game based on the book Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens. I use it during my plant unit as a great literacy tie in!

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